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Nepal Election

Supporters of the Nepali Congress party celebrate with their party flag outside a vote counting center after initial results showed their candidates winning in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. The leader of Nepal’s Maoist party, who appears to have lost in this week’s national election, demanded Thursday that the vote counting be stopped because of what he called massive irregularities. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

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Italy Etna Volca...In this photo taken on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013, Mt. Etna, Europe's most active volcano, spews lava during an eruption as seen from Acireale, near the Sicilian town of Catania, Italy. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi)

JFK AnniversaryThe eternal flame shines in the early morning light at the grave of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, on the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

South Korea Weat...Tourists take shelter from the snow near the 14th-century Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. South Korean Meteorological Administration report that it's the first snow of the season in Seoul and the temperature reached minus 0.3 degree Celsius (31 degree Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Washington Monum...Work crews continue removing the scaffolding surrounding the Washington Monument in Washington, early Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. The National Park Service has announced the earthquake damaged monument will reopen in spring of 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

India Farmer Fai...An Indian woman vendor sells guitar-shaped balloons during the annual Jhiri fair at Kanachack village, outskirts of Jammu, India, Monday, Nov.18, 2013. According to legend, the fair is held in memory of Baba Jitu, a simple and honest farmer who killed himself since he was not prepared to submit to the unjust demands of a landlord who wanted him to part with his crop. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

India Kashmir Se...Commandos of the Indian Jammu and Kashmir police force march during a passing-out parade at Lethpora, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Srinagar, India, Monday, Nov 18. 2013. According to the police authorities, 675 Kashmiri men on Monday were formally inducted into the force after nine months of rigorous training. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Mideast Israel P...Two Christian nuns attend the International Day of Faith celebration on Mount Precipice, near the northern Israeli town of Nazareth, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

The 544th Birth ...Sikh devotees light candles at the holy Sikh shrine of Golden Temple on the occasion of the 544th birth anniversary of their first Guru, Guru Nanak Dev, in the northern Indian city of Amritsar, November 17, 2013. (REUTERS/Munish Sharma)

India Agricultur...Indian villagers with their cattle return from a paddy field at Mayong village on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. With nearly 70 percent of India's population living in rural areas, farming is vital to India’s economy. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Mideast Emirates...Al Fursan, the aerobatics demonstration team of the UAE Air Force perform during the Dubai Air show, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Philippines Typh...A rainbow rises along damaged homes in Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced by Typhoon Haiyan, which tore across several islands in the eastern Philippines on Nov. 8. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Monaco National ...Guardsman arrive in the rain at the cathedral inMonaco before the mass for the Monaco's National Day, Tuesday Nov. 19, 2013. Monaco's Fete Nationale has been celebrated since the reign of Prince Charles III in 1857. Originally falling on the saint's day of the reigning prince, Prince Albert II decided to keep the date his father celebrated, Saint Rainier's Day, November 19th.(AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

Missouri Full Mo...A statue of the Angel Moroni on top of a Latter-day Saints temple is silhouetted against the rising full moon, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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Sumatran Tiger C...Two Sumatran tiger cubs, a male, Bandar and a female, Sukacita, play on a set of stairs as they make their public debut at the National Zoo in Washington, Monday Nov. 18, 2013. The two cubs were born in August and are now on public view. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Italy StormTwo tankers are battered by gale winds while at the roadstead in the rough waters of the Gulf of Cagliari, Sardinia, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. A violent rainstorm that flooded entire parts of the Mediterranean island of Sardinia has led to the deaths of at least nine people. Bridges were felled by swollen rivers and water levels reached 3 metres (yards) in some places. (AP Photo/Max Solinas)

Gettysburg Addre...James Getty, portraying President Abraham Lincoln, stands before a ceremony commemorating the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery and President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Tuesday Nov. 19, 2013, in Gettysburg, Pa. Lincoln's speech was first delivered in Gettysburg nearly five months after the major battle that left tens of thousands of men wounded, dead or missing. Getty is scheduled to deliver the Gettysburg Address at Tuesday's ceremony. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Indira Gandhi An...An Indian school girl waits to perform a dance during celebrations marking the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, in Allahabad, India, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. Indira Gandhi, the country's first and only woman prime minister, was shot to death by her own bodyguards in 1984. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Brazil Rio 2016 ...Small boats sit on the shore of Guanabara Bay in the suburb of Sao Goncalo, across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. The bay was home to a thriving artisanal fishing industry and popular palm-lined beaches as recently as the late-1970s, but has become a watery dump for waste from shipyards and two commercial ports. Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Los Angeles Auto...A worker cleans the tire of the Youabian Puma at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, in Los Angeles. The auto show opens to public on Friday, Nov. 22. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Italy CatacombsA fresco adorns the Catacombs of Priscilla, a labyrinthine cemetery complex that stretches for kilometers underground, in Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. The Vatican has unveiled newly restored frescoes in the Catacombs of Priscilla, known for housing the earliest known image of the Madonna with Child, and frescoes said by some to show women priests in the early church. The catacombs feature a tiny, delicate Madonna fresco dating from 230-240 AD, as well as scenes said by proponents of the women's ordination movement to show women priests. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Cloud Gate Dance...Members of the Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan perform their new work "Rice" during a rehearsal at the National Theater Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. "Rice," which was created to celebrate Cloud Gate's 40th anniversary, is taken place around the country from Nov. 22, 2013 to Jan. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

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Nepal ElectionSupporters of the Nepali Congress party celebrate with their party flag outside a vote counting center after initial results showed their candidates winning in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. The leader of Nepal’s Maoist party, who appears to have lost in this week’s national election, demanded Thursday that the vote counting be stopped because of what he called massive irregularities. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Sundial CeremonySons of Union Veterans of the Civil War look at the new sundial at the statehouse plaza, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013 in Concord, N.H. The original sundial from the Grand Army of the Republic was dedicated in New Hampshire in 1942, but it became lost. The sundial ceremony was held on the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery by Abraham Lincoln. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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